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Nintendo made an interactive alarm clock, and it’s awesome in so many ways【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 10, 2024
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Motion-sensing Alarmo wants to make you feel like you’re waking up in the game worlds of Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, and more.

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• (alarm clock • Alarmo • awesome • clever • cool • gadgets • Legend of Zelda • nintendo • sleep • Super Mario • video games • wellness)

Japanese design company creates world’s most badass…sewing supply box?!?【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 27, 2024

Kateika no Dragon’s Lourd Leger returns!

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• (anime • awesome • cool • crazy • dragons • gadgets • home economics • Kateika no Dragon • manga • sewing • video • werid)

Low-Amazon-rated heater claims to melt car frost with energy blasts, does only half a thing right

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 26, 2024

Vulgar analogy turns out to be surprisingly accurate.

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• (Amazon low-rated • cars • COK • crazy • funny • gadgets • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • weird)

Japan’s Setsubun Bean-Throwing Bazooka is so powerful demons won’t dare come near you

• Oona McGee
  Feb 3, 2024

Taking Japanese customs of demon-vanquishing to impressive new levels.

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• (beans • COK • cool • culture • funny • gadgets • mame • oni • setsubun • SNJO • weird)

It’s time to take a trip to pancake paradise with Japan’s new Warmer Plate kitchen gadget

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2023

Nitori puts the hot in hotcakes.

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• (clever • COK • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • kitchen gadgets • Nitori • pancakes • SNJO)

Crazy gadget company Thanko’s new “earphones” don’t play music, do heat your ears from the inside

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 9, 2023

Sleep aid device Mimipokka skips the tunes to focus on relaxation and destressing.

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• (crazy • earphones • gadgets • relaxation • sleep • Thanko • warm • weird)

Japan’s Qurra gadget has a weird name, logical purpose: Keeping your feet warm in winter

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2023

In a no-shoes-indoors society, the Qurra is here to help.

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• Japan
• (feet • gadgets • heater • iterior • warm)

New Japanese bowl-shaped donburi rice cooker cooks rice and toppings at the same time

• Oona McGee
  Nov 1, 2023

Making curry rice and beef bowls is now easier and faster than ever. 

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• (appliances • cooking • cool • electrical appliances • food • gadgets • home appliances • Japanese food • kitchen appliances • kitchen gadgets • rice • rice cooker • rice cookers • Thanko)

Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 30, 2023

Filled with tiny details to delight fans of Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Howl’s Moving Castle too.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • gadgets • Hayao Miyazaki • Howl's Moving Castle • humidifier • Kiki's Delivery Service • My Neighbor Totoro • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

This crazy car gadget totally blows, but does it do it in a good way?【Product test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2023

Battling the summer heat in a head-on way.

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• (cars • COK • crazy • funny • gadgets • hot • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping tests • product tests • SNJO • weird)

Japan’s new wearable air conditioner belt is here just in time for the Tokyo heat wave

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 14, 2023

Keeping you cooled down from the hips up.

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• (air conditioner • cool • fashion • gadgets • heat • hot • technology • wearable air conditioner)

Electric matcha whisk from Japan serves up frothy green tea in seconds

• Oona McGee
  Jun 30, 2023

The “Matcha Former” replicates the hand movements of a tea ceremony teacher.

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• (cafes • COK • cool • crowdfunding • drinks • gadgets • green tea • Japanese tea ceremony • matcha • matcha latte • tea • tea ceremony • Tokyo • whisk)

Japan’s weirdest gadget maker has a new fan just to dry off your legs (and crotch)【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 17, 2023

Thanko has a plan to keep you cool and dry below the waist this summer.

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• (clever • cool • fan • gadgets • Thanko • weird)

Testing the automatic jump rope spinner from Akihabara’s Thanko

• Master Blaster
  May 16, 2023

Coordination and fitness are just a hop, step, and jump away.

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• (COK • crazy • exercise • fitness • funny • gadgets • jump rope • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • SNJO • technology • Thanko • weird)

Japan’s new portable handheld microwave shoots to the top of our cooking gadget wish list

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 12, 2023

No cord, and no cold food either.

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• (awesome • clever • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • microwave • portable • technology)

Testing Amazon Japan’s lowest-rated Screaming Pot【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 10, 2023

Stress-relief item tells us to “shake well and have sex outside” if need be.

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• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • COK • crazy • funny • gadgets • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • stress • stress relief • video • weird)

Japan’s craziest gadget maker made this gadget that was too crazy to succeed, but what is it?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2023

Even by Thanko standards, this is seriously weird.

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• Japan
• (crazy • dish washer • gadgets • kitchen gadgets • Thanko • video • weird)

2022’s top stories in games and tech 【SoraNews24 Year in Review】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 31, 2022

How technology kept us entertained and baffled this year.

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• Japan
• (COK • funny • gadgets • games • SoraNews24 Year in Review • technology • weird)

Can Amazon Japan’s low-rated clothes drying bag save us in a pinch?

• Shannon
  Dec 28, 2022

Don’t mind us, just airing our clean laundry.

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• (Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • clothes drying • COK • cool gadgets • gadgets • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • travel gadgets • weird)

Japan’s Whole Pie Maker kitchen gadget is set to be our new hero this holiday baking season【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 24, 2022

Thanko gives us yet another thing for our stomachs to be thankful for.

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• Japan
• (cooking • food • gadgets • kitchen gadgets • pie • sweets • Thanko)

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